Patching OBIEE 11g in 4 steps.

Step 1: Download the required patch from oracle.

Backup OBIEE Installation
Backup the current OBIEE installation. In particular, the "Read Me" highlights the following:

FMW_HOME\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\server directory

 FMW_HOME\instances\instance1\bifoundation\ OracleBIServerComponent\coreapplication_obis1\repository

FMW_HOME\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\jee\mapviewer.ear\ web.war\WEB_INF\conf\mapViewerConfig.xml

Step 2: extract the patch and you can see more compressed files.Extract each zip files and put the files in some folder inside Oracle_BI1,(Please gave folder name without spaces)

Step 3: Down BI Services(Admin and managed server) and Open cmd in admin mode and navigate to oracle_BI1

 then set the environment variables as shown in below screen shot

For Linux environment

For Windows environment

Step 4: Navigate to the folder where you copied the patches and from inside the patch folder run opatch apply command

separately navigate to each patch folder and run opatch apply command.

You can see Opatch succeeded after each patch.


After applying all patch verify patches using the command

opatch lsinventory|grep applied

Now start BI services and verify the version of OBIEE from administrator.

Thank you.